Reddit's Web Series to Show Its Smart Side

Existentialism, the Syrian Crisis, and volatility of the stock market—those are some of the topics tackled in the debut of Reddit's new web series, which goes out of its way to show that the people behind a site that revels in memes like Socially Awkward Penguin and Actual Advice Mallard, can be pretty smart when they want to be. The web series (below) is actually a riff of the site's "explainlikeimfive" subreddit:

So far the series is only slated for the three episodes we mentioned. "We’re really curious what happens organically," Martin told THR. Whether or not this means we get three-minute videos on hunky forearms remains to be seen.